The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump’s week-long three-nation trip to Asia is generating comedic gold dust for late-night commentators and social media trolls in America even as his MAGA minions maintain that he is crushing it with his diplomatic masterstrokes. US trade agreements with Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea took a backseat to visuals of Trump bumbling around “like a grandpa lost in a mall” during a reception in Japan, an event that critics and comedians feasted on. The US President’s habitual word salads, including rambling digressions on his beef against magnets, his preference for steam engines over electric, and his incessant boasts on “solving” numerous wars, was cannon-fodder for comics while the White House put its best spin on the visit cons

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